Francis Dogbe / Blog
It is never easy, but the week ahead may be particularly difficult for market participants. It will first have to respond to weekend developments...
EUR/USD failed in its attempts to break higher and eventually dropped. The ECB decision is the main event in a busy week. What’s next for the world’s most popular currency pair? Here is an outlook for the highlights of this week and an updated technical analysis for EUR/USD...
All is calm. All is still. Share prices are going up. Oil prices are rising. China has stabilised. The eurozone is over the worst. After a panicky start to 2016, investors have decided that things aren’t so bad after all...
The US dollar turned in a mixed performance last week, which given the softer than expected inflation, retail sales data, and industrial output figures, coupled with the poor technical backdrop, could be a signal that its decline in recent months has run its course...
Greece's creditors are considering seeking extra austerity measures that would be triggered if Athens misses its fiscal targets, in a bid to bridge differences between Europe and the International Monetary Fund and break a deadlock threatening to unravel the Greek bailout...
Speculators were undeterred by the threat of BOJ intervention. In the CFTC reporting period ending April 12, speculators boosted their net and gross long yen positions to new record highs. The bulls added 2k contracts to their gross long position to give them 100.1k yen futures contracts...
The US dollar managed to make a comeback of sorts, mostly against the euro. The Doha Oil Summit, the ECB´s rate decision and housing figures in the US stand out. These are the highlights of this week. Here is an outlook on these main events. U.S...
This weeks analysis points to some major opportunities straight ahead across all the markets I have been looking at in the Elliott wave weekly picture. We saw some nice action in these markets which followed our analysis to a tee...
The UK economy appears to have lost some steam at the start of 2016, as the country is slowly approaching the June 23 EU referendum. The plebiscite is viewed as one of the most significant post-war political events in the UK, and a considerable risk to short-term economic stability...